Who Killed Elizabeth Salgado?

Elizabeth Salgado

She loved star-gazing, the sound of birds and flowers.

She was 26 years old missionary when she vanished on April 16, 2015, as she was walking home from school.

Less than a month before, she had moved to Provo, Utah from Mexico to study at the Nomen Global Language Center.

Classmates say they last saw Elizabeth, who spoke little English, after class that afternoon as she headed home to her apartment, about 18 blocks from the school. 

After that, there was no activity on her cellphone or bank accounts and she was never seen or heard from again.

Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on Friday, May 18, 2018, deputies were dispatched to a report from a man who said he found what he believed were human remains in Hobble Creek Canyon.

The remains were found off the road and it was in an area that you would not find by being on a trail.

The wooded, mountainous area where the body was found is a popular area for campers, fishermen, and hikers. 

Hobble Creek Canyon is roughly thirteen miles from where Elizabeth was last seen.

Using dental records, the remains were identified as belonging to Elizabeth Elena Laguna-Salgado.

The possibility of strangulation or asphyxiation appears unlikely, because the main bone in a strangulation, the hyoid bone, was not disturbed.

There is no outstanding evidence that would suggest blunt force trauma.

And there is no evidence of an overdose.

Her death is being treated as a homicide under suspicious circumstances and authorities are currently looking at two people.

They offered alibis but detectives aren't convinced of their whereabouts after Salgado disappeared.

In September, the family hired an attorney to help solve her murder.